A terrific crime novel that explores culpability, peer group pressure, betrayal and paranoia. Fossum’s prose style, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is crisp and clear, with not a word wasted.
Reading Matters
I not only enjoyed it but admired it, too. I also found it playing in my head for a long time afterwards, the effect on the reader every writer surely longs for
Lesley McDowell
Sunday Herald
The seventh Inspector Sejer novel from Norway's leading female crime writer is, like its predecessors, a gem
Laura Wilson
Guardian
This is a battle of wits, conducted with chilly intensity and an unsettling sense of menace
Joan Smith
Sunday Times
Few match her ability to conjure an atmosphere of emotional as well as geographical desolation
Marcel Berlins
The Times